Photos: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, I

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SS officers interrogate a captured resistance fighter during the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising, which began on April 19, 1943, and ended on May 16, 1943.
SS troops suppressed the uprising under the command of General Jürgen Stroop.

Jews captured during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are led by German
soldiers to the assembly point for deportation.

One of the most famous pictures of the Holocaust. German storm troopers
force Warsaw ghetto dwellers of all ages to move, hands up, during the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April-May 1943.

The April 28 edition of the Voice of Warsaw (a publication of
the Warsaw Committee of the Polish Workers' Party) reported, "The SS thugs set ablaze entire blocks of flats in order to force the
population to come out of hiding...the water, gas,
and electric supplies were cut off...."

Destruction of the ghetto was a primary Nazi strategy to squelch the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising in April-May 1943.

The SS-men lay in wait for the fighters and civilians forced out of their bunkers by fire, gas,
and a lack of water.

Mordechai Anielewicz (1919-1943), commandant of the ZOB during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He fell in battle on May 8, 1943.

These two women, soon to be executed, were members of the Jewish resistance. Dispatches by SS and Police General J. Stroop reported that
"...Jews and Jewesses shot from two pistols at the same time....The
Jewesses carried loaded pistols in their clothing with the safety catches
off....At the last moment, they would pull hand grenades out...and throw
them at the soldiers...."

Jews are found in a bunker during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943.

A woman hangs from a balcony, preparing to drop to the street and the
waiting SS.

A German gun crew prepares to shell the ruins of a building during the
suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19-May 16, 1943) was the twenty-day
battle initiated by the Jewish fighting forces in Warsaw when German troops
entered the ghetto to begin the final round of deportations.

An announcement posted several days after the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on the order of SS Major General Jürgen Stroop which forbids
entrance to the ghetto under punishment of death.

A German gun crew in action during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising.

Debris litters the street in front of a building destroyed by the SS during
the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

SS Major General Jürgen Stroop (second from left) gathers information from
a civilian on the second day of the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising.

The ruins of the former Warsaw ghetto Jewish Council building after its
destruction by the SS during the ghetto uprising. The original German
caption reads "The building of the former Jewish Council."

SS troops and officers search the Jewish department heads of the Brauer
armaments factory during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Jews captured during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are marched off through a
debris-covered street to the Umschlagplatz for deportation.

Jews captured by the SS during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are interrogated
beside the ghetto wall before being sent to the Umschlagplatz. The original
German caption reads: "Search and Interrogation."

An SS Sergeant (Oberscharführer) interrogates religious Jews captured
during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The original German
caption reads: "Jewish rabbis."

SS assault troops capture two Jewish resistance fighters pulled from a
bunker during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The original
German caption reads alternately: "Pulled from a bunker" or "Bandits."

The bodies of Jewish resisters lie in front of the ruins of a building where
they were were shot by the SS during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising. The original German caption reads: "Bandits killed in battle."

SS troops wait at the end of a smoke-filled street for Jewish resistance
fighters to exit apartment buildings set on fire on the fourth day of the
suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Mattresses and furniture lie piled next to an apartment building to provide
a place for the inhabitants to jump during the suppression of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising. The original German caption reads: "A place that had been
readied for jumping and escape."

A housing block burns during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The original German caption reads: "Destruction of a housing block."

Jews captured during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are led by the SS to the Umschlagplatz for deportation. The original German caption reads alternately: "To the Umschlagplatz" or "Deportation of Jews."